Halakha, theology, practice, and the inner life of Jewish observance.
Never AgainIs always NowThe eternal moment afterThe gates of hell openedReady to devour bodies and soulsThe moment of arrestedTimeAntipode of historyTo the dawn in Eden But within the darknessOf the moment born at AuschwitzLies the seed of another momentThe eternal “To Life”The eternal uprisingAgainst the Other SideAgainst the blasphemous machinery of deathFueled by rhetorical hate … Read more
Introduction: The Crisis and the Calling We live in a moment of profound civilizational crisis. The ideological frameworks that shaped the modern world—nationalism, capitalism, statism, and religious orthodoxy—are unraveling. Where nationalism without a higher calling devolves into chauvinism, capitalism detached from covenant yields exploitation and ecological collapse. And where religious structures forget their moral center, … Read more
“Doesn’t our model preserve the unity of God and the primacy of reason?” “Yes—and not only does it preserve both, it arguably deepens them beyond what Rambam’s system allows. Let’s unpack that. 1. Preserving the Unity of God Rambam is obsessed (rightly so) with protecting divine unity from any hint of composition, whether in essence … Read more
Yesh Omerim can sublimate the cogency or authority of a proposal, but it can also be a powerful tool to de-personalize a social debate.
Thinking about– the 49th level of con-fusion טומאה– the Hebrews who did not want to leave Egypt– the seductiveness of political pyramid schemes
From within the מצריים of the current world order, will be birthed a new world older, to be realized in the promised land that we will reach first in our minds and hearts, and then in the forests and fields, the hills and coasts upon which we dwell, we earth born children of Adam and … Read more
{What goes up / must come down} Title: The Tribunal When Selem ben Raphael stepped into the narrow hall above the old beit midrash on Rehov Rashi, he felt his weight return — gravitational, cultural, and mythic. Moments before, he had stood in his flat brushing dust from his sleeves. But in truth, he had … Read more
{Note: This is beautiful, and mind-bending – and Maimonidean.} Title: Between the Beginning and the Chariot Prologue – The Summoning [Scene opens in a desert. Selem walks alone beneath a black sky filled with stars that seem to breathe.] Selem (internal monologue): > I have studied the workings of matter, mapped the breath of atoms, … Read more
“You’re referring to our earlier conversation where multidimensional intelligence means intelligences whose being is distributed across higher spatial or ontological dimensions, such that: Some beings may be planetary or stellar-scale intelligences (like stars as sentient entities). Others may be multi-body minds, or entities whose cognition unfolds across nonlinear time, non-Euclidean space, or multiple instantiations. Humanity … Read more
“Why do you try to make everything shorter?” Because when I say less, I mean more. Because it’s important to balance everything. Because there’s a freedom in spontaneously adding, when the spirit moves me, within the pattern set by my ancestors.